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Burkeville is an unincorporated community in northern Newton County, Texas, United States. [1] It sits at the intersection of State Highways 63 and 87 , 10 miles west of the Sabine River . The Burkeville Independent School District serves the resident students.
Mayflower is an unincorporated community in Newton County, Texas, United States. [1] It is located at the junction of Texas State Highway 87 and Texas Recreational Road 255 . [ 2 ]
A map of FM 2134 in 1961. The road preceded RE 11. Only RE 2, RE 8, and RE 11 roughly followed the course of pre-existing routes. Recreational Road 11 connects FM 1929 to a recreational area on the O.H. Ivie Reservoir. The highway begins at an intersection with FM 1929, south of the O. H. Ivie Reservoir, as a two-lane, paved road.
The roadway intersects Texas State Highway 63 (SH 63) and U.S. Route 96, and helps form part of the Sam Rayburn Dam. The route continues into Newton County, intersecting Texas State Highway 87, before terminating at an intersection with Farm to Market Road 692 (FM 692), near the Louisiana state line.
Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (more commonly referred to as Lake LBJ and originally named Lake Granite Shoals) is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country about 45 miles northwest of Austin. The reservoir was formed in 1950 by the construction of Granite Shoals Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA).
Newton County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 12,217. [1] Its county seat is Newton. [2] The county is named for John Newton, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. Newton County is included in the Beaumont-Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.
These men also built roads and fire lookout towers and completed the Red Hills Lake Recreation Area near Toledo Bend Reservoir. CCC Company 880 established camp near Center, Texas on October 26, 1933, and planted thousands of pine trees in an area that became the northern part of Sabine National Forest.
In 1853, disputes led to the building of a courthouse and town in the county's geographical center instead of in Burkeville, a community 11 miles north northeast of Newton. A second courthouse in Newton, a Second Empire style structure, was built in 1902–1903 with bricks from nearby Caney Creek, according to a Texas Historical Commission marker.